Xinomavro Season is Here!

Xinomavro Season is Here – Ktima Stergiou Just Dropped at LCBO

For the first time ever, Ontario gets to taste what Greece’s insiders have been whispering about for years: the breathtaking Xinomavro from Ktima Stergiou.

Ktima Stergiou is a small, family-run estate with 60 acres of organically farmed vineyards perched high above the village of Metamorphosi in Kastoria, northern Greece. Afrodite Stergiou and her family farm just 11 hectares of old-vine Xinomavro organically, by hand, and with zero shortcuts.

Ktima Stergiou Harvest 2025

Afrodite – a former chemist turned winemaker – is the quiet revolutionary who traded lab coats for vineyards and now crafts wines that sit comfortably beside the finest Barolo and Etna Rosso.

Her 2019 Xinomavro spent 24 months in old 500 L French barrels, emerging with the grape’s signature pale ruby hue, explosive aromatics of sour cherry, sun-dried tomato, and mountain herbs, and a structure that promises another decade of evolution.

The 2019 Ktima Stergiou Xinomavro (LCBO VINTAGES #47496 | $43.95) marks the estate’s debut in Canada – and we fought hard to bring in every bottle we could. Only 126 bottles landed in the province, and they’re already moving fast at Summerhill, Yorkville, and Danforth.

Afrodite’s note to Ontario drinkers was simple: “I want you to taste the mountain air and the patience in every glass.”  

Mission accomplished. Welcome to Xinomavro season, Toronto.